Edmund Burke. Reflections on the revolution in France (№ 243549)

Success has determined the punishment. Subverted the laws, the courts are dispersed, powerless industry, the dying trade, unpaid debts, the people, impoverished, plundered the Church, the army and civil society in a state of anarchy, anarchy, a state device, each human and the creation of God, sacrificed to the idol of public trust, and as a result - national bankruptcy.