Edmund Burke: “The mistletoe, pointed out by its very peculiar appearance and manner of growth, must have struck powerfully on the…”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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.

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.

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.