Burke on The Present Discontents (1770)

 O que valia para a Inglaterra de 1770, deveria valer para o Brasil de hoje igualmente: 

"It  is therefore next in order, and equal in importance, that the discretionary powers which are necessarily vested in the monarch, whether for the execution of laws, or for the nominations to magistracy and office, or for conducting the affairs of peace and war, or for ordering the revenue, should all be exercised upon public principles and national grounds, and not on the likings or prejudices, the intrigues or policies, of a court. This, I said, is equal in importance to the securing a government according to law.

In: Edmund Burke on Government, Politics and Society, selected and edited by B. W. Hill (The Harvester Press, 1975), p. 102.