Edmund Burke: “The necessity of the resistance at the Revolution was at that time obvious to every man.”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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?

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.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.