We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. - Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

For my part for one, though I make no doubt of preferring the antient Course, or almost any other to this vile chimera, and sick mans dream of Government yet I could not actively, or with a good heart, and clear conscience, go to the establishment of a monarchical despotism in the place of this system of Anarchy.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one.