Edmund Burke: “As things now stand, every man, in proportion to his consequence at court, tends to add to the expenses of the civil…”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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.