Edmund Burke: “Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover; but let us pass on,--for God's sake, let us…”

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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

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.