Edmund Burke: “To counteract the alarm given by the progress of Jacobin arms and principles, he endeavored to excite an opposite alarm…”

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

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…