Edmund Burke: “Multitudes of all ages and sexes are actually imprisoned.”

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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.