Edmund Burke: “You can never survey, from its proper point of sight, the work you have finished, before you decree its final execution.”

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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

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