Edmund Burke: “It is natural, therefore, that they who wish the common destruction of the whole and of all its parts should contend for…”

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

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…