Edmund Burke: “You admit that there is an extreme in liberty, which may be infinitely noxious to those who are to receive it, and which…”

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.