Edmund Burke: “It is a Revolution of doctrine and theoretic dogma.”

He that does this is the cruel oppressor, the merciless enemy of the poor and wretched; at the same time that by his wicked speculations he exposes the fruits of successful industry and the accumulations of fortune to the plunder of the…

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.