Edmund Burke: “If this be our deliberate mind, truly we deserve to lose, what it is impossible we should long retain, the name of a…”

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.

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.

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