Edmund Burke: “As robbers, to them he is a noble booty; as speculatists, he is a glorious subject for their experimental philosophy.”

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.