Edmund Burke: “As virtue is limited in its resources, we are doubly bound to use all that in the circle drawn about us by our morals we…”

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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