Edmund Burke: “But the contradiction and partiality which admit no justification are not the less without an adequate cause; and that…”

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

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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.