Edmund Burke: “It is to him all the English authority is sacrificed, and four gentlemen are appointed to be his tools and instruments.”

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…