Edmund Burke: “The king is to call out troops to act against his people, when the world has been told, and the assertion is still…”

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

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

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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.