Edmund Burke: “The cry against the abuses was strong and vehement throughout the whole nation, and the practice of presents was…”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.