Edmund Burke: “They, it seems, were right; and if they were right a little earlier than we are, it only shows that they exceeded us in…”

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

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.

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.