Edmund Burke: “But examples drawn from history in occasions like the present will be found dangerously to mislead us.”

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.