Edmund Burke: “These two principles, strong, both of them, in our nature, create a voluntary inequality and dependence.”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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

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

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…