Edmund Burke: “It is an odd way of making flesh cheap, to stop or check the distillery.”

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.

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…

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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.