Edmund Burke: “There never was a mean and abject mind that did not admire an intrepid and dexterous villain.”

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

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.