Edmund Burke: “He is an ill-furnished undertaker who has no machinery but his own hands to work with.”

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.

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

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.