Edmund Burke: “It spreads out a large and liberal platform of common liberty, upon which we may all unite forever.”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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…

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