Edmund Burke: “It is such a life that, with a wild defiance, he flings in the face of his Creator, whom he acknowledges only to brave.”

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

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

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

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