Edmund Burke: “Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately…”

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

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.