Edmund Burke: “Do you think, that, under the name of a British Constitution, I mean to recommend to you such Lords, made of such kind…”

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

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

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

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.