Edmund Burke: “The more we multiply troops there, the more we shall multiply causes and means of quarrel amongst ourselves.”

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

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.