Edmund Burke: “They have perverted in themselves, and in those that attend to them, all the well-placed sympathies of the human breast.”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…