Edmund Burke: “Those who attempt by outrage and violence to deprive men of any advantage which they hold under the laws, and to destroy…”

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

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

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…

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