Junius

"One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine."

"There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled."

"We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed."

"I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived."

"Loyalty, in the heart and understanding of an Englishman, is a rational attachment to the guardian of the laws."

"The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted."

"When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferior grievances naturally lose their force, and are suffered to pass by without punishment or observation."

"The government of England is a government of law. We betray ourselves, we contradict the spirit of our laws, and we shake the whole system of English jurisprudence, whenever we entrust a discretionary power over the life, liberty, or fortune of the subject to any man, or set of men, whatsoever, upon a presumption that it will not be abused."

"There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves."

"When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith."

"The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles."

"We lament the mistakes of a good man, and do not begin to detest him until he affects to renounce his principles."