Edmund Burke: “But the spirit of ambition, now for the first time connected with the spirit of speculation, was not to be restrained at…”

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.