Edmund Burke: “As their constitutions are not systematical, they have not been directed to any peculiar end, eminently distinguished…”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

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

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