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

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

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

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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