Edmund Burke: “The people desire the privileges inseparably annexed, since Magna Charta, to the freehold which they have by descent or…”

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

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.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

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