Edmund Burke: “Now what does this go to, but to lead directly to anarchy?”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

He that does this is the cruel oppressor, the merciless enemy of the poor and wretched; at the same time that by his wicked speculations he exposes the fruits of successful industry and the accumulations of fortune to the plunder of the…