Edmund Burke: “We have proposed to restore religion as well as monarchy; and in Toulon we have restored neither the one nor the other.”

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

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.

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