Edmund Burke: “Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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.

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

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.