Edmund Burke: “This declaration of a new species of government, on new principles, (such it professes itself to be,) is a real crisis…”

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

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.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.