Edmund Burke: “To destroy that order, they vitiate the whole community.”

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.