Edmund Burke: “There is a courageous wisdom: there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.”

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.