Edmund Burke: “Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician.”

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.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.