Edmund Burke: “We have seen unlimited and arbitrary exaction avowed, on no pretence of any law, rule, or any fixed mode by which these…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.