Edmund Burke: “All these (in their way) are good things, too; and without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not…”

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.