Edmund Burke: “But we are all of us made to shun disgrace, as we are made to shrink from pain and poverty and disease.”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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