Edmund Burke: “The body of the people is yet sound, the Constitution is in their hearts, while wicked men are endeavoring to put…”

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

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