Edmund Burke: “Whilst he holds out no inducements to the wise nor bribes to the avaricious, he may be forced by a vulgar cry into a…”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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.

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…