Edmund Burke: “By this confinement of all communication to the ruling faction, any combination, grounded on the abuses and discontents…”

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

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.

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.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…