Edmund Burke: “The king was not inclined to give up to force what he had refused to reason.”

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

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

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…

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.