Edmund Burke: “A sword is a means of defence, and defence is the natural right of man,--nay, the first of all his rights, and which…”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

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

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