Edmund Burke: “I rejoice to see (that very rare spectacle) a good mind, a great genius, and public activity united together, and united…”

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

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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.