Edmund Burke: “Our laws had done all that the old condition of things dictated to render our judges erect and independent; but they…”

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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