Edmund Burke: “Viewing things in that light, my confidence in him is not increased, but totally destroyed, by those proceedings.”

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.