Edmund Burke: “It was a prodigal court, it was an ill-ordered revenue, that sapped the foundations of all her greatness.”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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…

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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