"I have not yet used--I trust no passion may tempt me into using--any words that would seem to savour of even a desire to enter into conflict with this House.

I have always taught, preached, and believed the supremacy of Parliament, and it is not because for a moment the judgment of one Chamber of Parliament should be hostile to me that I am going to deny the ideas I have always held; but I submit that one Chamber of Parliament--even its grandest Chamber, as I have always held this to be--had no right to override the law.

The law gives me the right to sign that roll, to take and subscribe the oath, and to take my seat there [with a gesture towards the benches].

I admit that the moment I am in the House, without any reason but your own good will, you can send me away.

That is your right.