Edmund Burke: “I assert it, those gentlemen deserved their pensions, their titles,--all they had; and if more they had, I should have…”

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

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.