Edmund Burke: “Arbitrary system, must always be a corrupt one, x. 5. danger in adopting it as a principle of action, xi. 322.”

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.

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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.