Edmund Burke: “With the support of that consciousness I can bear a good deal of the coquetry of public opinion, which has her caprices…”

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

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.

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.