Edmund Burke: “But the predominant party in Holland is not Holland.”

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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.

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

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.