Edmund Burke: “And, indeed, the chief difficulties which Christianity had to encounter did not arise so much from the struggles of…”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.