Edmund Burke: “This confiscation could not, therefore, be justified as a measure of economy; it must have been designed merely for the…”

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?

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.

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.