Edmund Burke: “All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc.”

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

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.