Edmund Burke: “If religion only related to the individual, and was a question between God and the conscience, it would not be wise, nor…”

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…

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

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…

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.