Edmund Burke: “It is to be confined within some bounds, if we can; if not, with every possible acquisition of power, it is still to be…”

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

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

He that does this is the cruel oppressor, the merciless enemy of the poor and wretched; at the same time that by his wicked speculations he exposes the fruits of successful industry and the accumulations of fortune to the plunder of the…