Edmund Burke: “Baffled, discountenanced, subdued, discredited, as the cause of justice and humanity is, it will be only the dearer to…”

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?

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.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.