Edmund Burke: “There is great danger that they, who enter smiling into this Trophonian cave, will come out of it sad and serious…”

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

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.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.