Edmund Burke: “This was to know the true art of gaining the affections and confidence of an high-minded people; this was to understand…”

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.

Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.