Edmund Burke: “There is no trade so vile and mechanical as government in their hands.”

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?

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.