Edmund Burke: “Paris, the mother of equality, was herself to be equalized.”

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

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

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

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.