Edmund Burke: “Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom?”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.