Edmund Burke: “They are satisfied to seek in the clemency of practised murderers the security of their lives.”

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

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

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

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.