Edmund Burke: “A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments…”

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.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.