Edmund Burke: “It is the necessary instrument of tyranny and usurpation; and therefore I do not wonder that it has had an early…”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.