Edmund Burke: “If it exists at all in this city, the laws have crushed its exertions, and our morals have shamed its appearance in…”

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.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.