Edmund Burke: “But it really appears to me that the means which this act employs are at least as exceptionable as the end.”

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

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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