Edmund Burke: “Abating for their want of sensibility to the sufferings of their associates, they are not so much in the wrong; for…”

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.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.