Edmund Burke: “Men are too apt to be deceitful enough in their professions of friendship, and this makes a wise man walk with some…”

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

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.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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