Edmund Burke: “This will beget acts of retaliation from you; and every retaliation will beget a new revenge.”

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

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

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