Edmund Burke: “It is like that of the Principle of Evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.”

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

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.