It was to raise himself, not by the low, pimping politics of a court, but to win his way to power through the laborious gradations of public service, and to secure himself a well-earned rank in Parliament by a thorough knowledge of its constitution and a perfect practice in all its business.
Burke articulates a vision of ambition rooted in hard work and integrity, rather than opportunism.
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An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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