Edmund Burke: “Are we to deny to a majority of the people the right of altering even the whole frame of their society, if such should…”

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.

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.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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.