Edmund Burke: “If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it, the general opinions and…”

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.