Edmund Burke: “The will of the many, and their interest, must very often differ; and great will be the difference when they make an…”

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

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.