Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

Good order is the foundation of all things.