Edmund Burke: “An armed, disciplined, body is, in its essence, dangerous to liberty; undisciplined, it is ruinous to society.”

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.

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

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.

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.