Edmund Burke: “You are now asked to give, in some moderate measure, to your fellow-citizens, what Great Britain gave to you without any…”

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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