Edmund Burke: “If there be any part of it to justify arbitrary power, he will produce it.”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

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.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.