Edmund Burke: “I have a right to pitch my tent in any unoccupied place I can find for it; and I may apply to my own maintenance any…”

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.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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.