Edmund Burke: “If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition, or at least tacitly…”

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.

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

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

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!