Edmund Burke: “But was it ever heard that polytheism tolerated a dissent from a polytheistic establishment,--the belief of one God…”

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

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.