Edmund Burke: “But the municipalities affect a sovereignty, and will command those troops which are necessary for their protection.”

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.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.