Edmund Burke: “It is common with the conquered side to attribute all their misfortunes to the treachery of their own party.”

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.

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…

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.