Edmund Burke: “Extend your imagination a little further, and then suppose your ministers taking a survey of this scene of waste and…”

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

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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.