Edmund Burke: “Here to be too presuming is the better error.”

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.