Edmund Burke: “I do not see why, as long as Providence gives us no further light into this great mystery, we should not leave things as…”

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.