Edmund Burke: “But Constantine made a much greater change with regard to religion by the establishment of Christianity.”

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.

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

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.

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