Edmund Burke: “Magnanimity, in politics, often the truest wisdom, ii. 181.”

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

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

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.

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