Edmund Burke: “When did you hear in Great Britain of any province suffering from the inequality of its representation? what district…”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.