Edmund Burke: “To this conciliatory and amicable public communication our sole answer, in effect, is this:--"Citizen Regicides!…”

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.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.