Edmund Burke: “What would be our sentiments, if in that miserable service we were not to be considered either as English, or as Swedes…”

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

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.

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.