Edmund Burke: “A man must be judged by his own actions only.”

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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…

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.