Edmund Burke: “What an escape we have had, that we and our allies were not the conquerors!”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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

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.