Edmund Burke: “After a peaceable possession of more than three hundred years, the Britons derived but very few benefits from their…”

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.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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?

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?