Edmund Burke: “They complain that they are taxed in a Parliament in which they are not represented.”

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

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

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?

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.