Edmund Burke: “Fraud, injustice, oppression, peculation, engendered in India, are crimes of the same blood, family, and cast with those…”

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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.

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.