Edmund Burke: “Whatever it may be in the eyes of these noble persons themselves, to me their situation calls for the most profound…”

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

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.