Edmund Burke: “Upon this, the rebellion blazed out with tenfold fury, and the people declared they would be revenged for the…”

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.

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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.