Edmund Burke: “Is it among the rights of man to pay tribute to his equals?”

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

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

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…

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.