Edmund Burke: “But as no negotiation had prepared the Pope in favor of laws designed in reality to abridge his own power, it was no…”

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

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.

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

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.