Edmund Burke: “Perfected by the offices and duties of social life, man is the best; but, rude and undisciplined, he is the very worst…”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.