Edmund Burke: “At home, I see no abatement whatsoever in the zeal of the partisans of Jacobinism towards their cause, nor any cessation…”

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 body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

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

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!