Edmund Burke: “The nation is sick, very sick, by their medicines.”

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.