Edmund Burke: “People will bear an old establishment, when its excess is corrected, who will revolt at a new one.”

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…

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.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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