Edmund Burke: “But, in his opinion, the very worst part of the example set is in the late assumption of citizenship by the army, and…”

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.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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.