Edmund Burke: “It may be new to his Grace, but I beg leave to tell him that mere parsimony is not economy.”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

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 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.