Edmund Burke: “The market settles, and alone can settle, that price.”

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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

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

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