Edmund Burke: “It is thus, and for the same end, that they endeavor to destroy that tribunal of conscience which exists independently…”

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

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.