Edmund Burke: “Alas! she has already paid for her own ransom the fund of equivalent,--and a dreadful equivalent it is, to England and…”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?