Edmund Burke: “It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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

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.

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