Edmund Burke: “I am sure no man is more zealously attached than I am to the privileges of this House, particularly in regard to the…”

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.