Edmund Burke: “But they tell us, that those our fellow-citizens whose chains we have a little relaxed are enemies to liberty and our…”

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.

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?

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.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.