Edmund Burke: “Corruption and arbitrary power are of natural unequivocal generation, necessarily producing one another.”

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.

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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.