Edmund Burke: “To a people who have once been proud and great, and great because they were proud, a change in the national spirit is…”

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

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