Edmund Burke: “Yet Rome was destroyed by the frequency and charge of elections, and the monstrous expense of an unremitted courtship to…”

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.