Edmund Burke: “If the system of institution recommended by the Assembly is false and theatric, it is because their system of government…”

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

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.