"He must have a heart of adamant who could hear a set of traitors puffed up with unexpected and undeserved power, obtained by an ignoble, unmanly, and perfidious rebellion, treating their honest fellow-citizens as rebels, because they refused to bind themselves, through their conscience, against the dictates of conscience itself, and had declined to swear an active compliance with their own ruin."
A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs 
Text copied online and cursorily corrected against Edmund Burke, <u>A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs</u>, 3rd edition (Paris, Printed, and London, Re-printed for J. Dodsley, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L1wPAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;