Edmund Burke: “Let it speak for itself to the present age and to all posterity.”

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.

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 speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

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.