Edmund Burke: “It is not at all wonderful that both he and his ministers, giving way abundantly in other respects to innovation, should…”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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.

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.

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.