There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

She [the Catholic Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.

Our liberty is neither Greek nor Roman; but essentially English. It has a character of its own,—a character which has taken a tinge from the sentiments of the chivalrous ages, and which accords with the peculiarities of our manners and of our insular situation. It has a language, too, of its own, and a language singularly idiomatic, full of meaning to ourselves, scarcely intelligible to strangers.