Edmund Burke: “If they are kept such for any length of time, they will be made whole Jacobins.”

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

He that does this is the cruel oppressor, the merciless enemy of the poor and wretched; at the same time that by his wicked speculations he exposes the fruits of successful industry and the accumulations of fortune to the plunder of the…

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

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