Edmund Burke: “At the close of the war, almost in every instance victorious, all Europe was astonished, even those who received them…”

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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?

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.