Edmund Burke: “Much the strongest moral obligations are such as were never the results of our option.”

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

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.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.