Edmund Burke: “In the first place, why did he take bonds at all from the Company for the money that was their own?”

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

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

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.