Edmund Burke: “But it will appear in its time; and no man who professes to reduce another to the insolent mercy of a foreign arm ever…”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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.