Edmund Burke: “Their tyranny is complete in their justice; and their lanterne is not half so dreadful as their court.”

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

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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.