Edmund Burke: “The patience of fortitude and the endurance of pusillanimity are things very different, as in their principle, so in…”

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

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.

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

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