Edmund Burke: “I speak of policy, too, in a large light; in which large light, policy, too, is a sacred thing.”

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.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.