Custom reconciles us to everything.
From Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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