Edmund Burke: “These form our second nature, as inhabitants of the country and members of the society in which Providence has placed…”

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.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…