Edmund Burke: “There is nothing to be in propriety called people, to watch, to inspect, to balance against the power of office.”

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 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?

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.