All the horrors, and all the crimes of the anarchy which led to their revolution, which attend its progress, and which may virtually attend it in its establishment, pass for nothing with the lovers of revolutions.
This passage underscores the idea that the negative consequences of revolution are often overlooked by its proponents, who romanticize the act of rebellion.
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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.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
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