Edmund Burke: “None on account of their dignity should be exempt; none (preserving due proportion) on account of the scantiness of…”

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

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…

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.