Edmund Burke: “The Company in India does not exist as a national colony.”

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.

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

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…