Benfield would now again argue from his former observations, that, under his Highness's management, his country declined, his people emigrated, his revenues decreased, and his country was rapidly approaching to a state of political insolvency.
Burke reflects on the negative consequences of poor leadership on a country's stability and prosperity.
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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.
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
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.
The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.
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