Edmund Burke: “What does it signify to turn abuses out of one door, if we are to let them in at another?”

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

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.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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.