Edmund Burke: “I cherish hopes from your generosity, that, considering me in the light of one of your servants, you will always…”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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.