Edmund Burke: “Too great to obey, and too little to protect, they were a dead weight upon the country.”

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.