Edmund Burke: “All these he must support on grounds that are totally different, though practically they may be, and happily with us…”

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

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.