Edmund Burke: “This is Jacobinism sublimed and exalted into most pure and perfect essence.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

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

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.