Edmund Burke: “Yet the restoration of our monarchy, even in the person of such a prince, was everything to us; for without monarchy in…”

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.

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.

When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.

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