Edmund Burke: “You unite to the force of the legislative power that of opinion, still more important." To be sure, the army can have no…”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.