Edmund Burke: “You, who are not the predominant power, will not give to others the relaxation under which you are yourself suffered to…”

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

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

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.