Edmund Burke: “Often, as in your case, they are great oppressions, as well as great absurdities.”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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