Edmund Burke: “It shows in what part it is, and with what a weapon, they mean a deadly blow at the heart of Great Britain.”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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.

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

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.