Edmund Burke: “In short, he subdued the Britons by civilizing them, and made them exchange a savage liberty for a polite and easy…”

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

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

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.