Edmund Burke: “He valued the old nobility and the new, not as an excuse for inglorious sloth, but as an incitement to virtuous…”

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

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.