Edmund Burke: “Let us not be amongst the first who renounce the maxims of our forefathers.”

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.

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

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.