Edmund Burke: “The ground of a political war is of all things that which the poor laborer and manufacturer are the least capable of…”

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

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.