Edmund Burke: “Man and his conscience cannot always be at war.”

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

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

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.