Edmund Burke: “I confess I was always blind enough to regard the French Revolution, in the act, and much more in the example, as one of…”

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.