Edmund Burke: “Its foundation is laid in Regicide, in Jacobinism, and in Atheism; and it has joined to those principles a body of…”

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.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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?

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…