Edmund Burke: “But, after all, is it fit that this dishonorable contention between the court and juries should subsist any longer?”

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.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.