Edmund Burke: “Nor is it every contribution, called voluntary, which is according to the free will of the giver.”

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.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.