Edmund Burke: “This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election; and popular election is a mighty evil.”

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

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

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.