Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. - Edmund Burke

Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye. The policy has been the same in many cases of religion.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.