Edmund Burke: “In the East, where the rivalship of brothers is so dangerous, such is the force of paternal power amongst a rude people…”

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.