Edmund Burke: “But the difference is great between a plan for our own security and a scheme for the utter destruction of France.”

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.

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