Edmund Burke: “He is astonished and stupefied to find so much unprofitable violence, so much tyranny, and so little pecuniary…”

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…