Edmund Burke: “Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination, a want of such classification and…”

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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

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

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.