Edmund Burke: “The consequence was this: he did not humble Godwin, but raised him potent rivals.”

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.

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.