Edmund Burke: “I most heartily wish that the deliberate sense of the kingdom on this great subject should be known.”

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.