Edmund Burke: “I am a Whig: I blushed for the dishonor of Parliament.”

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

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.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.