Edmund Burke: “Thus was anarchy organized amongst the people, that they might be compelled to throw themselves into our arms.”

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.

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

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

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.