Edmund Burke: “Now will the noble lord condescend to tell me why he repealed the taxes on your manufactures sent out to America, and…”

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

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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.