Edmund Burke: “They would persuade him to look on the National Assembly, not with the hatred of an enemy, but the jealousy of a rival.”

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

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

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

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