Edmund Burke: “I could better bear the stench of the gibbeted murderer than the society of the bloody felons who yet annoy the world.”

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.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.