No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. - Edmund Burke

Strange incongruities must ever perplex those, who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

It is a dreadful truth, but it is a truth that cannot be concealed; in ability, in dexterity, in the distinctness of their views, the Jacobins are our superiors.