Edmund Burke: “He has studied the form and spirit of republics very early in life; he has studied them with great attention, and with a…”

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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