Edmund Burke: “They hold an immemorial possession to be no more than a long continued and therefore an aggravated injustice.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.