Edmund Burke: “They have perverted in themselves, and in those that attend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.

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…

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.