Edmund Burke: “Church and State are ideas inseparable in their minds, and scarcely is the one ever mentioned without mentioning the…”

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

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.

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.