Edmund Burke: “Are all the taxes to be voted grievances, and the revenue reduced to a patriotic contribution or patriotic presents?”

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.