Edmund Burke: “They are well entitled, after a bloody war maintained for eight months against all the powers of anarchy, to speak the…”

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.