Edmund Burke: “The zeal of the missionaries was also much assisted by their superiority in the arts of civil life.”

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

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.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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…