Edmund Burke: “Every law which obstructs it in any part of this distribution is, in proportion to the force and extent of the…”

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.

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?

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…