Edmund Burke: “At home they have no means whatsoever provided for their attaining a clerical education, or indeed any education at all.”

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

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…

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

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