Edmund Burke: “They are the distempers of elections that have destroyed all free states.”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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.

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