Edmund Burke: “There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust…”

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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

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