Edmund Burke: “If the power of the House of Commons be degraded or enervated, no other can stand.”

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.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?