Edmund Burke: “Vanity, however, finds its account in reversing the train of our natural feelings.”

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.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

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

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.