Edmund Burke: “This they may say who wish to talk idly, and who would display their humanity at the expense of their honesty or their…”

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

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.