Edmund Burke: “Here was a state of things which seemed to invite, and might perhaps justify, bold enterprise and desperate experiment.”

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!

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.