Edmund Burke: “Thus were delineated the faint and incorrect outlines of our Constitution, which has since been so nobly fashioned and…”

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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.

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

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.