Edmund Burke: “A peace too eagerly sought is not always the sooner obtained.”

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

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

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.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.