Edmund Burke: “They would know that Parliament, at all hazards, would force the king to a separate peace.”

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.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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.