Edmund Burke: “The Revolution in France had the relation of France to other nations as one of its principal objects.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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