Edmund Burke: “Is it a certain maxim, that, the fewer causes of dissatisfaction are left by government, the more the subject will be…”

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.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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.