Edmund Burke: “All the art of Greece and all the pride and power of Eastern monarchs never heaped upon their ashes so grand a monument.”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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.

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

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.