Edmund Burke: “If this be the case in the present instance, certainly you ought to make the alteration that is proposed, to satisfy…”

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

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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