Edmund Burke: “That the matters stated in it are perfectly true we vouch the House of Commons, we vouch the very persons themselves who…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.