Edmund Burke: “They became no more than names to distinguish factions: but they were not the less powerful in their operation, when…”

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.