Edmund Burke: “The discomfitures which the Republic of Assassins has suffered have uniformly called forth new exertions, which not only…”

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

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.