Edmund Burke: “Respecting your wisdom, and valuing your safety, we do not call upon you to trust your existence to your enemies.”

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.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.