Edmund Burke: “Now as to the other point, that the objects of these laws suffer voluntarily: this seems to me to be an insult rather…”

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.