So violent an outrage upon credit, property, and liberty, as this compulsory paper currency, has seldom been exhibited by the alliance of bankruptcy and tyranny, at any time, or in any nation.
Critiquing the financial policies of the French Revolution, Burke describes the compulsory paper currency as an extreme violation of credit, property, and liberty, unprecedented in history.
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The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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