Edmund Burke: “A common soldier, a child, a girl at the door of an inn, have changed the face of fortune, and almost of Nature.”

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

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

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

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.