Edmund Burke: “It is a great improver of the understanding, by showing both men and affairs in a great variety of views.”

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

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

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

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