Edmund Burke: “Let us not deceive ourselves: we are at the beginning of great troubles.”

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

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…

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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