Edmund Burke: “I know there is an order that keeps things fast in their place: it is made to us, and we are made to it.”

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.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

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