Edmund Burke: “The first secures its liberty by establishing its throne; the other builds its freedom on the subversion of its…”

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.