Edmund Burke: “If your enemy offers peace in the moment of success, it indicates that he is satisfied with something.”

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

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?