Edmund Burke: “They, on the contrary, have omitted no pains to eradicate every benevolent and noble propensity in the mind of men.”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.