Edmund Burke: “And I dealt with every man, whatever the judgment I had formed of him, according to my own opinion of his worth.”

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.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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?

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