Edmund Burke: “Would this be the England that you and I, and even strangers, admired, honored, loved, and cherished?”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

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…

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.

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…