Edmund Burke: “Did not this language energetically enough signify that they looked upon the assignats as a leprosy, and the union as a…”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.