Edmund Burke: “For God forbid that guilt should ever leave a man the free, undisturbed use of his faculties!”

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 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?

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.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.