Edmund Burke: “But where are the objects of justice, and of example, and of future security to the public peace?”

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.

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?

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

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.