Edmund Burke: “Other times, perhaps other measures; but in this awful hour our politics ought to be made up of nothing but courage…”

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

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

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…