The distinction between legislation and taxation is essential to liberty.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

There are many things a parliament cannot do. It cannot make itself executive, nor dispose of offices which belong to the crown. It cannot take any man's prope…

I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been f…