Edmund Burke: “In no case could these principles be less depended upon than in the affairs of the East India Company.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.