Edmund Burke: “Is it for him to question the dispensation of the royal favor?”

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.