Edmund Burke: “It is very unfortunate that we should consider those as rivals, whom we ought to regard as fellow-laborers in a common…”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.