Edmund Burke: “I will not enter into the question, how much truth is preferable to peace.”

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.

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!

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

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?