Edmund Burke: “The king had experienced how dangerous it was to attempt removing foundations so deeply laid both in strength and…”

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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