Edmund Burke: “It proves beyond all doubt, that the legislature did not mean to guard the Church on one part only, and to leave it…”

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.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.