Edmund Burke: “If prescription be once shaken, no species of property is secure, when it once becomes an object large enough to tempt…”

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.