Edmund Burke: “To unite circumspection with vigor is absolutely necessary, but it is extremely difficult.”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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…