Edmund Burke: “Even the fundamental sacred rights of man they have not scrupled to profane.”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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.