Edmund Burke: “They who hold revelation give double assurance to their country.”

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

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.