Edmund Burke: “The state has dominion and conquest for its sole objects,--dominion over minds by proselytism, over bodies by arms.”

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?

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

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…

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.