Edmund Burke: “The first authors, plotters, and contrivers of this monstrous scheme seem to me entitled to the first place in our…”

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

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

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.

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