Edmund Burke: “He is certain that many, even in France, have been made sick of their theories by their very success in realizing them.”

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

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

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

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…