Edmund Burke: “If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always…”

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

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

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.