It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.
Edmund BurkeHe that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
Edmund BurkeWhere two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
Edmund Burke