Edmund Burke: “It is not for the diffusion of truth, but for the spreading of contradiction.”

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.

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.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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.