Edmund Burke: “They required several more alterations to adapt them to the system of a free Constitution.”

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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

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.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.