Edmund Burke: “When ignorance and corruption have usurped the professor's chair, and placed themselves in the seats of science and of…”

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.

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

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.

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?