All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund BurkeFor as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.
Edmund BurkeCrimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
Edmund Burke