Edmund Burke: “They flatter themselves that the extreme misery brought upon the people by their folly will at last open the eyes of the…”

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.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

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