Edmund Burke: “Stronger grounds for a presumption of fraud never appeared in any transaction.”

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

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

He that does this is the cruel oppressor, the merciless enemy of the poor and wretched; at the same time that by his wicked speculations he exposes the fruits of successful industry and the accumulations of fortune to the plunder of the…