Edmund Burke: “I think that sum will fully answer as a reward to all real merit and a provision for all real public charity that is…”

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.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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.