Edmund Burke: “The event, indeed, might be dubious: in a state radically weak, every measure vigorous enough for its protection must…”

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.