Edmund Burke: “Perhaps the greatest mischiefs that have happened in the world have happened from persons as wild as those we think the…”

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.