Edmund Burke: “As if the dire goddess that presides over it, with her murderous spear in hand, and her gorgon at her breast, was a…”

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…

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…