Edmund Burke: “Strange ground to expect applause!--a discovery which was no discovery at all!”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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.