Edmund Burke: “They make no scruple beforehand to tell you the whole of what they intend; and this is what we call, in the modern…”

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.