Edmund Burke: “No such state-paper, as a preliminary to a negotiation for peace, has ever yet appeared.”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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

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!