Edmund Burke: “That the Christian religion cannot exist in this country with such a fraternity will not, I think, be disputed with me.”

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

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

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

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!