Edmund Burke: “Love of liberty itself may, in such men, become the means of establishing an arbitrary domination.”

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.

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.

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.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…