Edmund Burke: “I answer, that my exertions, whatever they have been, were such as no hopes of pecuniary reward could possibly excite…”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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

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

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.