Edmund Burke: “This secret under-current, as your Lordships will see, is to counteract everything, and, as fast as one part is rendered…”

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.

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.

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?

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.