Edmund Burke: “That power should be puffed up with pride, that authority should degenerate into rigor, if not laudable, is but too…”

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

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