Edmund Burke: “As to the House of Commons, they treat it far worse than the House of Lords or the crown have been ever treated.”

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.