Edmund Burke: “An inquiry is wished, as the most effectual way of putting an end to the clamors and libels which are the disorder and…”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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