Edmund Burke: “Indeed, wherever the sovereign powers of peace and war are given, there wants but time and circumstance to make these…”

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.

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.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.