Edmund Burke: “But if, while France continued in this swoon, we should go on increasing our expenses, we should certainly make…”

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

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.

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.

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.