Edmund Burke: “If he has any duty relative to it, his duty is to destroy it.”

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

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

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.