Edmund Burke: “But when we see the model held up to ourselves, we must feel as Englishmen, and, feeling, we must provide as Englishmen.”

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?

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…

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…

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.