Edmund Burke: “The authority of the Assembly itself suffers by passing through such a debilitating channel as they have chosen.”

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!