Edmund Burke: “I assure you, that, on the most prosperous issue of your arms, you will not be where you stood when you called in war to…”

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…

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

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.