Edmund Burke: “Every general officer with them is a Marlborough, every statesman a Burleigh, every judge a Murray or a Yorke.”

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

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

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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