What cure for the radical weakness of the French monarchy, to which all the means which wit could devise, or Nature and fortune could bestow, towards universal empire, was not of force to give life or vigor or consistency, but in a republic?
Burke reflects on the inherent weaknesses of the French monarchy and questions the effectiveness of its attempts at empire-building.
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Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.
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