Edmund Burke: “I know that all parsimony is of a quality approaching to unkindness, and that (on some person or other) every reform…”

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.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.