I have ever abhorred, since the first dawn of my understanding to this its obscure twilight, all the operations of opinion, fancy, inclination, and will, in the affairs of government, where only a sovereign reason, paramount to all forms of legislation and administration, should dictate.
Burke expresses his disdain for decisions based on opinion rather than sovereign reason in government.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.
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.
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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