Edmund Burke: “No country in which population flourishes, and is in progressive improvement, can be under a very mischievous…”

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.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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.

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.