Edmund Burke: “But they have their passions, though of another kind, and which are infinitely more likely to carry them out of the path…”

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.

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.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.