Edmund Burke: “Hastings kept the whole government of Oude in his own hands; so that the Council had no power of judging his acts, of…”

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?

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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