Edmund Burke: “We cannot arrange with our enemy, in the present conjuncture, without abandoning the interest of mankind.”

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

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

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

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…