Edmund Burke — "The effects of liberty on the human mind are not always favourable to the peace …"

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free."

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

"Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover."

"It is a general error to imagine that those whom we call authors are the only writers. There is another class of writers, and a very numerous one, who are in the habit of writing without ever putting …"

"Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are s…"