Edmund Burke: “Liberty is not sacrificed to a zeal for religion, but a zeal for religion is pretended and assumed to destroy liberty.”

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.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.