Edmund Burke: “Before our opinions are quoted against ourselves, it is proper, that, from our serious deliberation, they may be worth…”

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…

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

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.

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.