Edmund Burke: “We must meet a vicious and distempered energy with a manly and rational vigor.”

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

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

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.