Edmund Burke: “He waits the moment when the passions give way; he waits till reason shall preside, and till the multitude shall listen…”

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

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

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.