Edmund Burke: “This patriotic declaration immediately alarmed the swarm of courtly insects that live only in the sunshine of…”

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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