Edmund Burke: “They who raise suspicions on the good on account of the behavior of ill men are of the party of the latter.”

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

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.

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…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.