Edmund Burke: “When the multitude are not under this discipline, they can scarcely be said to be in civil society.”

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

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.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.