I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he p… - Edmund Burke

I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

The plunder of the few would, indeed, give but a share inconceivably small in the distribution to the many. But the many are not capable of making this calculation; and those who lead them to rapine never intend this distribution.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.