Edmund Burke: “This comprehensive scheme virtually produced a degree of personal liberty in forms the most adverse to it.”

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

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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.