Edmund Burke: “You cannot see with your own eyes the sufferings and afflictions you cause.”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.