Edmund Burke: “The only thing which occurs to such a man, when he has got a business for others into his hands, is, how to make his own…”

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

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.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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?