Edmund Burke: “The abuses stated in our impeachment are not those of mere individual, natural faculties, but the abuses of civil and…”

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.

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.