Edmund Burke: “I give due credit to the censorial brow, to the broad phylacteries, and to the imposing gravity of those magisterial…”

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.

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

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.