Edmund Burke: “The British state is, without question, that which pursues the greatest variety of ends, and is the least disposed to…”

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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.

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.