Edmund Burke: “Not being able to revenge themselves on God, they have a delight in vicariously defacing, degrading, torturing, and…”

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

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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