Edmund Burke: “They are artificial combinations, and, in their proximate efficient cause, the arbitrary productions of the human mind.”

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…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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…

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?