Edmund Burke: “In what heart is it intended to kindle pity towards our multiplied mortifications and disgraces?”

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.

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

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