Edmund Burke: “They have no virtue or wisdom in their minds, to which, in a disappointment concerning the profitable effects of fraud…”

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

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