Edmund Burke: “On Edric the Forester, who lay under his sword, in the same generous manner he not only bestowed his life, but honored…”

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

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?

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?

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.