Edmund Burke: “For which of her vices did they put to death the mildest of all human creatures, the Duchess of Biron?”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.