Edmund Burke: “These places, and others of the same kind, which are held for life, have been considered as property.”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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.