Perché il male trionfi è sufficiente che i buoni rinuncino all'azione. - Edmund Burke

​A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the Constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve.

the earth, the kind and equal mother of all ought not to be monopolised to foster the pride and luxury of any men

That unwise body, the United Irishmen, have had the folly to represent those Evils as owing to this Country, when in truth its chief guilt is in its total neglect, its utter oblivion, its shameful indifference and its entire ignorance, of Ireland and of every thing that relates to it, and not in any oppressive disposition towards that unknown region.