Edmund Burke: “In truth, instead of benefiting by this superior quantity of representation, the rich man is subjected to an additional…”

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

He that does this is the cruel oppressor, the merciless enemy of the poor and wretched; at the same time that by his wicked speculations he exposes the fruits of successful industry and the accumulations of fortune to the plunder of the…