Edmund Burke: “Punishment and vengeance alone remain,--and God forbid that they should ever be forgotten!”

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

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.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.