Edmund Burke: “Britain was in the time of Julius Cæsar what it is at this day, in climate and natural advantages, temperate and…”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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.

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…

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.