Edmund Burke: “He meant only, to the best of his power, to guard the public against the ill designs of factions out of doors.”

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

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?

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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