Edmund Burke: “Afterwards, a republican constitution was, under the influence of France, established in the Empire, against the…”

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

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…

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.