Edmund Burke: “If a commodity is raised by authority above what it will yield with a profit to the buyer, that commodity will be the…”

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.

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

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

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