Edmund Burke: “As to that popular humor which is the medium we float in, if I can discern anything at all of its present state, it is…”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.