Edmund Burke: “This is but common justice, which they and all mankind have a right to.”

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

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

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…

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