Edmund Burke: “But such is the disease,--such is the cure,--such is, and must be, the effect of Regicide vicinity.”

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.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…