Edmund Burke: “My Lords, you have the blood of nobles,--if not, you have the blood of men in your veins: you feel as nobles, you feel…”

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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