It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.
Edmund BurkeThe parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
Edmund BurkeThere is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund BurkeThe objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.
Edmund Burke