Edmund Burke: “This view will be the best comment on their institutions.”

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.