Edmund Burke: “He ought to be cautious how he recommends authors of mixed or ambiguous morality.”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.