Edmund Burke: “Hastings's bribe was become due, and his rapacity must be fed from the vitals of the people.”

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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