Edmund Burke: “Caution is for those who have something to lose.”

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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

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