Edmund Burke: “This is like to be effectual policy: I am sure it is honorable policy: and it is better to fail, if fail we must, in the…”

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

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.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.