Edmund Burke: “But nothing is left to Nature in their systems.”

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.