Edmund Burke: “In fact, marriage was publicly set up to sale.”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.