Edmund Burke: “She had, except the commercial restraint, every characteristic mark of a free people in all her internal concerns.”

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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…

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.