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My Notion of a Whig, I mean of a real Whig (for the Nominal are worse than any Sort of Men) is, That he is one who is exactly for keeping up to the Strictness of the true old Gothick Constitution.

—Sir Robert Molesworth, Preface to François Hotman, Franco-Gallia (London, 1711)

… naked Rights are thin and metaphysical Notions which few are Masters or Judges of.

—William Atwood, The Lord Holles his Remains (London, 1682)

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

—Patrick Henry (1775)