Edmund Burke: “But your legislative authority is perfect with regard to America: was it less perfect in Wales, Chester, and Durham?”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.