Edmund Burke: “It is a pollution even to touch him; and if he touches any of his old caste, they are justified in putting him to death.”

So far is it from being true that we acquired a right by the Revolution to elect our kings, that, if we had possessed it before, the English nation did at that time most solemnly renounce and abdicate it, for themselves, and for all their…

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.

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

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.