Edmund Burke: “This supposition does as little credit to their integrity as their wisdom: it makes them at once hypocrites and fools.”

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

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

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.