Edmund Burke: “That sentiment of homely benevolence was worth all the splendid sayings that are recorded of kings.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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.

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.

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.