Edmund Burke: “They pretended to seek, or they flattered themselves that they sought, in the accession of new fortresses, and new…”

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

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…

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.