But the ministers, faithful to the plan of the interested persons, whom alone they thought fit to confer with on this occasion, have ordered the payment of the whole mass of these unknown, unliquidated sums, without an attempt to ascertain them.
Burke criticizes the ministers for their lack of diligence in verifying debts before making payments.
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To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.
The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.
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.
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