Edmund Burke: “In this case, as in almost all the rest, the remedy was not applied directly to the disease.”

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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.

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

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.