Edmund Burke: “Do you, or does any Irish gentleman, think it a mean privilege, that, the moment he sets his foot upon this ground, he…”

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

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 have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.