Edmund Burke: “I was, indeed, well aware that power rarely reforms itself.”

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.