Edmund Burke: “That power goes with property is not universally true, and the idea that the operation of it is certain and invariable…”

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

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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.