Edmund Burke: “You may call half a dozen leading individuals, whom we have reason to fear and hate, the nation.”

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

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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…