Edmund Burke: “I knew, that, attacked on all sides by the infernal energies of talents set in action by vice and disorder, authority…”

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

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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…