Edmund Burke: “It was to invite partisans, by making it appear to the world that a generous cause was to be asserted, one fit for a…”

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

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

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