Edmund Burke: “What mercy would these usurpers have on other sovereigns, and on other nations, when they treat their own king with such…”

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.