Edmund Burke: “You derive benefits from many dispositions and many passions of the human mind which are of as doubtful a color, in the…”

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

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

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

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.