Edmund Burke: “The coercive authority of the state is limited to what is necessary for its existence.”

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

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