Edmund Burke: “The members of this faction leave no doubt of the nature and the extent of the mischief they mean to produce.”

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

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

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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.