Edmund Burke: “All these circumstances are not, I confess, very favorable to the idea of our attempting to govern India at all.”

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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.

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?