Edmund Burke: “The preachers of mischief remain safe, and are wicked enough not to feel for their deluded disciples,--no, not at all.”

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

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.