Edmund Burke: “In such a state of calamity and disgrace, I can no longer remain a passive spectator; nor would it be becoming to…”

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

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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.