Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Edmund BurkeThe same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
Edmund BurkeWhilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund BurkeThis sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
Edmund Burke