Edmund Burke: “The practical consequences of any political tenet go a great way in deciding upon its value.”

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.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

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