Edmund Burke: “None of your Lordships can have observed without astonishment the selection of his merits, as he audaciously calls them…”

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.

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

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.