Edmund Burke: “It is, indeed, a system which can only answer the purposes of robbers and murderers.”

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.