Edmund Burke: “Men who have an interest to pursue are extremely sagacious in discovering the true seat of power.”

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

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.