Edmund Burke: “There was no longer any means of arresting a principle in its course.”

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

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.

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…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.