Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Edmund BurkeI despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
Edmund BurkeWhenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke