Edmund Burke: “He received the English nobility according to their rank, he promoted them to offices according to their merit, and…”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

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.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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.