Edmund Burke: “But an House of Commons without power and without dignity, either in itself or in its members, is no House of Commons…”

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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