Edmund Burke: “But is it permitted to ask what security it affords to the liberty of the subject, that the prince is pacific or frugal?”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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.

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?

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…