Edmund Burke: “No intent can make a defamatory publication good, nothing can make it have a good tendency; truth is not pleadable.”

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.

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.

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

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…