Edmund Burke: “The first two are so intimately connected as not to be separated even in thought: the reëstablishment of royalty, and…”

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.

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.

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.