Edmund Burke: “Then will be felt the full effect of encouraging doctrines which tend to make the citizens despise their Constitution.”

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

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

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

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.