Edmund Burke: “To diet a man into weakness and languor, afterwards to give him the greater strength, has more of the empiric than the…”

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.