Mr. Burke appeared often in despair when he read the Papers & saw how violent party rage was become in England as well as in France. He often said th… - Edmund Burke

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in his own cause. By this each person has at once divested himself of the first fundamental right of uncovenanted man, that is, to judge for himself, and to assert his own cause. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. He inclusively, in a great measure, abandons the right of self-defense, the first law of nature. Men cannot enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together. That he may obtain justice, he gives up his right of determining what it is in points the most essential to him. That he may secure some liberty, he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.