Edmund Burke: “Tyranny and cruelty may make men justly wish the downfall of abused powers, but I believe that no government ever yet…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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.