Edmund Burke: “But pretexts and sophisms have had their day, and have done their work.”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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