Edmund Burke: “When there has been provocation, you ought to be ready to listen to terms of reconciliation, even after war has been…”

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.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?