Edmund Burke: “If he reads,--whether he reads or not, some good or evil genius will tell him his ancestors were kings.”

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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!

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

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