Edmund Burke: “The Anglo-Saxon laws, by universal consent of all writers, owe more to the care and sagacity of Alfred than of any of…”

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

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

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

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