Edmund Burke: “He enacted by a law that every person possessed of two hides of land should send their children to school until sixteen.”

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

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