Edmund Burke: “These atheists eluded all that you could do: so will all freethinkers forever.”

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

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

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…

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.