Edmund Burke: “A mean and unworthy jealousy it would be to do anything upon, the mere speculative apprehension of what men will do.”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?