Edmund Burke: “It has a much greater resemblance to those changes which have been made upon religious grounds, in which a spirit of…”

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…

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

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

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.