Edmund Burke: “The middle classes had swelled far beyond their former proportion.”

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

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.