Edmund Burke: “No man would be more steady in preventing them from abusing those rights to the destruction of that happy order under…”

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…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

He that does this is the cruel oppressor, the merciless enemy of the poor and wretched; at the same time that by his wicked speculations he exposes the fruits of successful industry and the accumulations of fortune to the plunder of the…