Edmund Burke: “He was bound to proceed publicly and legally against the accused, and to convict him of his crime, previous to his…”

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.

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.