Edmund Burke: “Major Gilpin's evidence leaves not even the shadow of a pretence for this charge.”

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

No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

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.