Of the French declaration of human rights Burke declared: "They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man, in such a pedantic abuse of elementary principles as would have disgraced boys at school....
Beveridge quotes Burke to criticize the French declaration of rights, suggesting it lacks fundamental principles.
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Is not liberty secure with us, where the people hold all powers in their own hands, and delegate them cautiously, for short periods, to their servants, who are accountable for the smallest mal-administration?...
Had not mobs been the precursors of our own Revolution?
As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.
Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
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