Edmund Burke: “There must be some impulse, besides public spirit, to put private interest into motion along with it.”

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

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.

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