Edmund Burke: “They cannot do the lower duty; and in proportion as they try it, they will certainly fail in the higher.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.