He must have known that no one in the House of Commons was his equal.

He must have known how few of those he called upon to recognize the splendor of their function were capable of playing the part he pictured for them.

The answer to a morally bankrupt aristocracy is surely not the overwhelming effort required in its purification when the plaintiff is the people; for the mere fact that the people is the plaintiff is already evidence of its fitness for power.

Burke gave no hint of how the level of his governing class could be maintained.

He said nothing of what education might accomplish for the people.