All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke