Edmund Burke: “But, after all, what is this metaphor called a crown? or rather, what is monarchy?”

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

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.