Edmund Burke: “The Protestants of Ireland feel well and naturally on the hardship of being bound by laws in the enacting of which they…”

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

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.