Edmund Burke: “It is but too true that there are many whose whole scheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverseness, and insolence.”

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?

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.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.