Edmund Burke: “All hope of gaining them to the support of property, or to the acknowledgment of any law but their own will, was…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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

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.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.