Edmund Burke: “A dispute may always be raised in council in order to cover oppression and peculation elsewhere.”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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

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

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…