Edmund Burke: “First, that no counter revolution is to be expected in France from internal causes solely.”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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

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.