Edmund Burke: “I never mean to put any colonist, or any human creature, in a situation not becoming a free man.”

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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.