Edmund Burke: “I am no lover of names; I contend for the substance of good and protecting government, let it come from what quarter it…”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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

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

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.