Edmund Burke: “I do not think that any man sent out to India is sent with an ill purpose, or goes out with bad dispositions.”

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.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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