Edmund Burke: “It was too glaring a contradiction even to those principles upon which persecution itself is supported.”

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

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