Edmund Burke: “Louis the Fourteenth confessed, by this sort of apology, that, if the number had been large, the revocation had been…”

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

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…

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.