Edmund Burke: “They are willing to trust to the sympathy of regicides the guaranty of the British monarchy.”

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

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.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.

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