Edmund Burke: “But it does: for it secures to the subject the power of REFUSAL,--the first of all revenues.”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.