Edmund Burke: “The revolution commenced in something plausible, in something which carried the appearance at least of punishment of…”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.