Edmund Burke: “But the predominant party in Holland is not Holland.”

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.

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.

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.