Edmund Burke: “Their history for a long time shows us a remarkable conflict between their dispositions and their principles.”

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.

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

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.