Edmund Burke: “With us the King and the Lords are several and joint securities for the equality of each district, each province, each…”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.