Edmund Burke: “Great designs may be started and the spirit of them inspired by enthusiasts, but cool heads are required to bring them…”

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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

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?

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.