Edmund Burke: “An equal tax upon property is reasonable; because the object is of the same quality throughout.”

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.