Edmund Burke: “Unluckily, too, the credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.”

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.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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.

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.