Edmund Burke: “But if I see the very same beginnings which have commonly ended in great calamities, I ought to act as if they might…”

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…

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

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.

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