Edmund Burke: “If any of these is forced into the fellowship of another, this is conquest and not compact.”

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

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

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

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.