Edmund Burke: “If I have written or spoken so poorly as to be quite forgot, a fresh apology will not make a more lasting impression.”

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

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 must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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