[339]: Macaulay, Life of William Pitt.
[340]: I almost venture to affirm that not one in a hundred among us participates in the triumph of the Revolution Society.
[341]: The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror. We wished always to derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers.... (We claim) our franchises not as the rights of men, but as the rights of Englishmen.
[342]: Burke, Appeal from the new to the old whigs.
We have not been drawn and trussed in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags and paltry blurred shreds of papers about the rights of men.
[343]: We fear God, we look up with awe to kings, with affection to parliaments, with duty to magistrates, with reverence to priests, and with respect to nobility.
[344]: There is not one public man in this kingdom who does not reprobate the dishonest, perfidious and cruel confiscation which the national assembly has been compelled to make.... Church and state are ideas inseparable in our minds.... Our education is in a manner wholly in the hands of ecclesiastics, and in all stages, from infancy to manhood.... They never will suffer the fixed estate of the church to be converted into a pension, to depend on the treasury.... They made their church like their nobility, independant. They can see without pain or grudging an archbishop precede a Duke. They can see a bishop of Durham or of Winchester in possession of ten thousand a year.
[345]: Who born within the last forty years has read a word of Collins, and Toland, and Tindal.... and that whole race who called themselves free-thinkers?
We are protestants not from indifference but from zeal.
Atheism is against not only our reason but our instincts.