Edmund Burke: “When you cast your eye on the statute-book, you will see that no Catholic, even in the ferocious acts of Queen Anne, was…”

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.

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.

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.