Edmund Burke: “Milan, I am sure, nourishes great disquiets; and if Milan should stir, no part of Lombardy is secure to the present…”

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.

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

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?

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…