Edmund Burke: “Indifference, pleasure, and pain, viewed in relation to each other, as states of the mind, i. 103.”

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…

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.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.