Edmund Burke: “Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at.”

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

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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

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