Edmund Burke: “There was no longer any means of arresting a principle in its course.”

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.

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.

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