Edmund Burke: “The principle was exactly the same, the objects charged infinitely more extensive, the duties without comparison higher.”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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