Edmund Burke: “The haughtiness by which the proud repel us has this of good in it,--that, in making us keep our distance, they must…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

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

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