Edmund Burke: “They who have been most conversant in this kind of learning will be most sensible of the danger of submitting corporate…”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.