Edmund Burke: “Is it inhuman to prevent, if possible, the spilling their blood, or imprudent to guard against the effusion of our own?”

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.

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.