Edmund Burke: “Does not such a disorder destroy all the respect that is due to superiors, and all the mutual confidence without which…”

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

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!

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