Edmund Burke: “What motive has any rational man, who thinks in that manner, to spill his blood, or even to risk a shilling of his…”

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.