Edmund Burke: “But commerce in exchange for empire, for safety, for glory!”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.