Edmund Burke: “Those statutes have not given us our liberties: our liberties have produced them.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…