Edmund Burke: “They are pleased to confide their property to the safeguard of those who are robbers by inclination, interest, habit…”

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

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.