Edmund Burke: “Thousands of those hell-hounds called Terrorists, whom they had shut up in prison, on their last Revolution, as the…”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.