Edmund Burke: “That which he intends to produce as a justification we charge, and your Lordships and the world will think, to be the…”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.