Edmund Burke: “The happiness or misery of multitudes can never be a thing indifferent.”

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.

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.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.