Edmund Burke: “He is to contend for it as much after an apparent conquest as before.”

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.