Edmund Burke: “I know but one way of avoiding it, which is, to give a greater degree of simplicity to our politics.”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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

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

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.