Edmund Burke: “Individuality is left out of their scheme of government.”

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

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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.

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.