Edmund Burke: “We know that there are deeds of gift by husbands to their wives during their lifetime, and many other legal means, by…”

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

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?

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.