Edmund Burke: “These ministers will be so many spies and incendiaries, so many active emissaries of democracy.”

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.