Edmund Burke: “They ought not now, in my opinion, to suffer all the monarchies and commonwealths to be swallowed up in the gulf of this…”

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 body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.