It is here that your modern legislators have gone deep into the negative series, and sunk even below their own nothing.
Edmund Burke: “It is here that your modern legislators have gone deep into the negative series, and sunk even below their own nothing.”
Editor's note · Context
In a scathing critique of the French Revolution, Burke asserts that modern legislators have achieved nothing of value, falling below even their own insignificance.
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