Edmund Burke: “They hold this government to be an usurpation.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

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

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

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.