Edmund Burke: “But the Emperor's own politics with regard to the Netherlands seem to me to be exactly calculated to answer the purpose…”

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!