Edmund Burke: “For if the judgment makes the law, and not the law directs the judgment, it is impossible there should be such a thing…”

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

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.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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