Edmund Burke: “There is always an augury to be taken of what a peace is likely to be from the preliminary steps that are made to bring…”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.