Edmund Burke: “It costs him nothing to excite terror, because he lays it at his pleasure.”

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

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

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

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