Edmund Burke: “Every instance of fury and bigotry in other men, one should think, would naturally fill us with an horror of that…”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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