Edmund Burke: “They choose to be thought subdued by the treachery of their friends rather than the superior bravery of their enemies.”

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

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.