Edmund Burke: “They are content to rest their religion on the piety of atheists by establishment.”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

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.

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.