Edmund Burke: “They endured time enough for treaties which benefited themselves and have done infinite mischief to our cause.”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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.