Edmund Burke: “The shortness of time in which they are to reap the profits of iniquity is far from checking the avidity of corrupt men…”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.