Edmund Burke: “Oppression, the poorest and most illiterate are judges of it, iv. 281.”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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.