Edmund Burke: “But to prosecute the war money was wanting, which new taxes and new devices supplied with difficulty and with dishonor.”

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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…