Edmund Burke: “To punish them with lesser penalties would be to debilitate the commonwealth, and make the nation miserable, which it is…”

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

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

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

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.