Edmund Burke: “Did an honest creditor ever refuse that reasonable and honest test?”

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.

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

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.

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.