Edmund Burke: “The Common Law, as it then prevailed in England, was in a great measure composed of some remnants of the old Saxon…”

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

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…

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!