Edmund Burke: “I would add my part to those who would animate the people (whose hearts are yet right) to new exertions in the old…”

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

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

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.