Edmund Burke: “Thus it is that covetousness cut its throat with its own hands.”

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

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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.