Edmund Burke: “Having looked at his public services, which are well-known scenes of wickedness, barbarity, and corruption, we next come…”

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…