Edmund Burke: “By contending for liberty in the candidate for orders, you take away the liberty of the elector, which is the people…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.