Edmund Burke: “Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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