Edmund Burke: “An abject distrust of ourselves, an extravagant admiration of the enemy, present us with no hope but in a compromise…”

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

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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