Edmund Burke: “A business which has so long occupied the councils and the tribunals of Great Britain cannot possibly be huddled over in…”

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

As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.

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.