Edmund Burke: “I never govern myself, no rational man ever did govern himself, by abstractions and universals.”

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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.

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

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.