Edmund Burke: “Let them open their own eyes, which degeneracy and pusillanimity have shut from the light that pains them, and let them…”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…