Edmund Burke: “They may obscure it with their smoke, but they never can illumine sunshine by such a flame as theirs.”

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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.