Edmund Burke: “By his indefatigable application the first English navy was in a very short time in readiness to put to sea.”

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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?

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 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.