Edmund Burke: “There is a law of neighborhood which does not leave a man perfect master on his own ground.”

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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

If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.