Edmund Burke: “Here Agricola observed a conduct very different from that of his predecessor, Paulinus: the island, when he had reduced…”

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.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.