Edmund Burke: “You supposed their right, and you guarantied it, though you might then have asked what was their right.”

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

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

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.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.