Edmund Burke: “She saw that the Irish of her race were resolved to build their Constitution and their politics upon another bottom.”

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

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…