Edmund Burke: “Men sometimes make a point of honor not to be disabused; and they had rather fall into an hundred errors than confess…”

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

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

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

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.