Burke himself, as his own speeches show, knew little or nothing of the pain involved in the agrarian changes of his age.

The one way to avoid violent outbreak is not exclusion of the people from power but their participation in it.

The popular sense of right may often, as Aristotle saw, be wiser than the opinion of statesmen.

It is not necessary to equate the worth of untrained commonsense with experienced wisdom to suggest that, in the long run, neglect of common sense will make the effort of that wisdom fruitless.
This, indeed, is to take the lowest ground.

For the case against Burke's aristocracy has a moral aspect with which he did not deal.