Edmund Burke: “Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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

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.