Edmund Burke: “She was the asylum of what learning had escaped the general desolation; and even in her ruins she preserved something of…”

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

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.