Edmund Burke: “Our political architects have taken a survey of the fabric of the British Constitution.”

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 doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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.