Edmund Burke: “Have we not solemnly declared this Constitution unalterable by any future legislature?”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.