He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are, delightful, as we every day experience.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.