Edmund Burke: “We are men, and as men, undoubtedly nothing human is foreign to us.”

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?

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

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

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