Edmund Burke: “This ought to be the primary object of all our politics and all our military operations.”

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

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

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

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