Edmund Burke: “But, as no one of us men can dispense with public or private faith, or with any other tie of moral obligation, so…”

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

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

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.

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.