Edmund Burke: “When men are thoroughly possessed with that zeal, it is difficult to calculate its force.”

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

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

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

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.