Edmund Burke: “The Empire was perishing by the vices of its constitution.”

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.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.