Edmund Burke: “In the first place, why did he take bonds at all from the Company for the money that was their own?”

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

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…

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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