Edmund Burke: “It is to this humor, and it is to the measures growing out of it, that I set myself (I hope not alone) in the most…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.