Edmund Burke: “These men, to be sure, can look at atrocious acts without indignation, and can behold suffering virtue without sympathy.”

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

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

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…