Edmund Burke: “I am a Whig, I blushed for the dishonour of parliament.”

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

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

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

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.