Edmund Burke: “Our commerce must become vassal to her and dependent on her will.”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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

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.

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.