Edmund Burke: “A violent spirit is raised, which the presiding minds after a time find it impracticable to stop at their pleasure, to…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

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!