Edmund Burke: “No compensation, no consideration, was given or stipulated for them.”

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.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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.