Edmund Burke: “We have a right, undoubtedly, to canvass this, as we have to canvass every act of government.”

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.

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.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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?