Edmund Burke: “Without this, no government, certainly not our government, is capable of a great war.”

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

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

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

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.