Edmund Burke: “Thus some sort of a balance is formed among conditions; a sort of compensation is furnished to those who, in a limited…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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

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.

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