Edmund Burke: “We had a limb cut off, but we preserved the body: we lost our colonies, but we kept our Constitution.”

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…