Edmund Burke: “Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is…”

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

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.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.