Edmund Burke: “Very dissonant are a gentle country and cruel laws; very dissonant, that your reason is furious, but your passions…”

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.

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

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.

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.