Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental Guardian and Legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as He loves us better too.
In his reflections on the French Revolution, Burke discusses the providential role of challenges in human development.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
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.
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.
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.
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