Edmund Burke: “Some advantage, real or imaginary, must compensate to a great sovereign and to a great general for so immense a loss of…”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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.

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?