Edmund Burke: “The good of the commonwealth is the rule which rides over the rest; and to this every other must completely submit.”

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.

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.

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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