Edmund Burke: “Any number of individuals, who can agree upon it, have an undoubted right to form themselves into a state apart and…”

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.