Edmund Burke: “In their way to the destruction of the Church they would not scruple to destroy their country: and they have destroyed…”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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.