Edmund Burke: “Never have the servants of the state looked at the whole of your complicated interests in one connected view.”

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.

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

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…