Edmund Burke: “Secondly, I lay it down as a rule, that the power of occasional incapacitation, on discretionary grounds, is a…”

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.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.