Edmund Burke: “Government will be for a while the sport of contending factions, who, whilst they fight with one another, will all…”

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

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.