Edmund Burke: “Philosophy does not inspire by violence, nor by seduction; nor is it the sword that begets love of liberty.”

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.