Edmund Burke: “Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her…”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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?

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…