Edmund Burke: “She saw that true policy did not require that they ever should have appeared in that character; or if it had done so…”

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.