Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke - Edmund Burke

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.