Edmund Burke: “The existence of quite another system of opinions and interests is now plain to the grossest sense.”

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…

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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.