Here is a man appointed, of the greatest possible power, of the greatest possible wickedness, in a situation to exert that power and wickedness for the destruction of the country, and without doubt it would require the greatest ability and diligence in the person at the head of that Council to prevent it.
Burke warns of the dangers posed by a powerful and wicked individual in a position of authority.
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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.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
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