Edmund Burke: “We tolerate even these,--not from love of them, but for fear of worse.”

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…