Edmund Burke: “The same reasons of prudence and accommodation have weight with me in restoring the charter of Massachusetts Bay.”

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.

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.

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

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.