Edmund Burke: “It will be perfumed with other incense than the infectious stuff which is imported by the smugglers of adulterated…”

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.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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

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.