Edmund Burke: “That country has but too much life in it, when everything around is so disposed to tameness and languor.”

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.