Edmund Burke: “That liberty is nothing but the rein given to vice and confusion.”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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

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.