For we must not deceive ourselves: whatever does not stand with credit cannot stand long.

And if the Constitution should be deprived, I do not mean in form, but virtually, of this resource, it is virtually deprived of everything else that is valuable in it.

For this process is the cement which binds the whole together; this is the individuating principle that makes England what England is.

In this court it is that no subject, in no part of the empire, can fail of competent and proportionable justice; here it is that we provide for that which is the substantial excellence of our Constitution,--I mean, the great circulation of responsibility, by which (excepting the supreme power) no man, in no circumstance, can escape the account which he owes to the laws of his country.

It is by this process that magistracy, which tries and controls all other things, is itself tried and controlled.