Edmund Burke: “Think whether this be the way to prevent or dissolve factious combinations against the Church or the State.”

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

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

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

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.