Edmund Burke: “They judged every controversy either by the conscience of the parties, or by the country's opinion of it, or what they…”

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

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.

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