Edmund Burke: “Indignation carried to its height commences proscriptions which fall only on the guilty, but in which error and…”

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…

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

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

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.