Edmund Burke: “When there has been provocation, you ought to be ready to listen to terms of reconciliation, even after war has been…”

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

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

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

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.