Edmund Burke: “It is laid in the unalterable constitution of things,--None can aspire to act greatly but those who are of force greatly…”

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.

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

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

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.