Edmund Burke: “Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities; but escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell…”

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…

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.

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…