Edmund Burke: “They who think so well of the French Constitution certainly will not be the persons to carry on a war to prevent their…”

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.

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.

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.

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.