Edmund Burke: “It is a trust, indeed, that has much depending upon its faithful and diligent performance, both in the person presiding…”

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

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…

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

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