Edmund Burke: “Where Clive forded a deep water upon an unknown bottom, he left a bridge for his successors, over which the lame could…”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.