Edmund Burke: “But is it a fair inference from a jest on this unseasonable lamentation, that he was then an enemy to monarchy, either…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.