Edmund Burke: “The people of that description have no hold on the gentlemen who aspire to be popular representatives.”

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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…