Edmund Burke: “When he can himself give no account of his motives, and even declares that he cannot assign any cause, I am authorized…”

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.

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.

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

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