Edmund Burke: “Now will your Lordships be so good as to let it rest in your memory what sort of an exchequer this is, even with regard…”

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

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.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.