Edmund Burke: “By admitting settled, permanent substance in lieu of the numbers, you would avoid the great danger of our time, that of…”

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

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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.