Edmund Burke: “The more frequently this affair is discussed, the stronger the case appears to the sense and the feelings of mankind.”

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

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

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

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.