Edmund Burke: “I hope we have still spirit enough to keep us from the one or the other.”

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

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

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

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.