Edmund Burke: “The temper of the king was most inclined to the latter method, which is of all things the worst.”

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.

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

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

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