Edmund Burke: “It was this, which, without confounding ranks, had produced a noble equality, and handed it down through all the…”

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

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.