Edmund Burke: “Abroad, scorn, contempt, and derision cast upon and covering the British name, war stirred up, and dishonorable treaties…”

Unquestionably there was at the Revolution, in the person of King William, a small and a temporary deviation from the strict order of a regular hereditary succession; but it is against all genuine principles of jurisprudence to draw a…

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.