Edmund Burke: “Our account of the war, as a war of communion, to the very point in which we began to throw out lures, oglings, and…”

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

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.