Edmund Burke: “He felt that this nobility, in fact, does not exist in wrong of other orders of the state, but by them, and for them.”

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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

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

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…