Edmund Burke: “I hope the people, both here and with you, will always apply to the House of Commons with becoming modesty, but at the…”

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

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.